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"Master Tomaso," he stammered, "they shall not do this thing I cannot b-bear it! We have we have the formula for the Apples of Sodom, and and other things. They would give more than gold for that knowledge." Tomaso laid a gentle hand upon the young shoulder.
Not Tomaso, who would have convinced even Mary V of his harmlessness, but a broad-shouldered, square-faced man with squinty eyes, a constant smile, and only a slight accent. Johnny went to the door, plainly hesitating over the common little courtesy of inviting him in.
As to the food, perhaps there was not too much of it, or it may have been badly cooked; for Tomaso had a lean and hungry look, and his tanned cheek had diagonal lines drawn from the cheek- bone to the corner of the clean-shaven mouth. The lips were firm, the chin was long. It was a solemn face that looked out from beneath the shadow of the great fig-tree.
"What if he does?" demanded Don Luis, snapping his fingers gayly. "Are not his excellency, the governor, and I, the best of friends? Would he give heed to rumors against me, brought by evil-tongued men? Oh, no! No! I tell you, Senor Tomaso, I am over lord here. I am the law in these mountains." "It must be a great comfort, Don Luis if you have many enemies," suggested Tom Reade smilingly.
He placed the lamp where the light fell full upon the paper and studied the letterhead for several minutes, scowling. Tomaso, he decided, had remarkably sharp eyes. Seen from that angle, the letterhead was not conspicuous. The volplaning machine was not at all striking to the eye.
Tomaso, the old butler, who was standing by the table, and enjoying the praises of the wine quite as much as if bestowed upon himself, made answer, "We have a tradition, Signore," said he, "that this rare wine of our vineyard would lose all its wonderful qualities, if any of it were sent to market. The Counts of Monte Beni have never parted with a single flask of it for gold.
The tiger came and stretched itself at full length before Tomaso, who at once appropriated him as a footstool.
The Florentine envoy sent a despatch to inform the Duke of the event, and he tells him the arrangements made as to the inventory of property and the disposal for safe-keeping of seven or eight thousand crowns found in a sealed box, opened in the presence of Messer Tomaso dei Cavalieri and Maestro Daniele da Volterra.
Calmed by the shrewd prudence characteristic of his race, the old carpenter made no haste to reply. At last he said, "Well, as for me, brother Tomaso, I should vote against him always against him. And you know very well that we should have the majority. The Pope-king indeed! That's all over. The very Borgo would revolt.
"The daughter of a wine-seller called Tomaso Torti?" "Do the noble dames of the city take such heed of their inferiors! This will charm my cousin, for she has great desires to be noted by the great." "And does thy cousin come hither?" "Rarely, lady we are not of much intimacy. I suppose Annina finds a girl, simple and uninstructed as I, unworthy of her company.
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